Old Japan - Rice farming/rice planting in Japan

Old Japan - Planting rice by hand and by machine in Iwate, northern Japan. Old and new side by side. While enjoying the drive home from school one day my attention was drawn to the rice fields beside me.. this short clip shows rice planting by machine, and by hand, in neighbouring rice fields. Here in the countryside of 'Old Japan' it is fairly remote and not near any big cities, so a lot of the old traditions still survive. I eat rice twice a day, and often Japanese people have it three times a day. Rice farming or rice planting in Japan is just a way of life and has shaped the Japanese way of thinking over the years as it can't be done alone. It needs group cooperation, or in other words, a village to pull together and help out. It's the reason suggested for the group mentality of the Japanese unlike the western way of valuing individualism. Here, the land is mostly given over to rice farming or rice planting, and other agricultural use.. the Japanese way! I wonder how this differs to rice farming in China or Korea? Go on Old Japan..